Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln: Born Same Day, Lives have Opposite Impact
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Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day, FEBRUARY 12, 1809, but their lives had...
Sir Robert Baden-Powell ‘s original vision for the Boy Scouts …
... and how it changed
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Sir Robert Baden-Powell began the Boy Scout movement in England in 1908, and two years later,...
Peter Cartwright, Abraham Lincoln, & Final Farewell at Springfield, Illinois
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Peter Cartwright (1785-1872) was ordained by the Methodist circuit-riding preachers Rev. Francis Asbury and Rev. William McKendree.
He served as a...
Nazi Body Parts Experiments, Jews Disarmed, Arab Legion, anti-Christian agenda, & Bonhoeffer’s courageous opposition
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Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, stated:
"Socialized medicine is a keystone to the establishment...
Battle Hymn of the Republic & efforts to end the slave trade
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Five dollars was all she was paid by the Atlantic Monthly Magazine for her poem, "The Battle Hymn of the...
Jacob Duché Continental Congress Prayer & a caution to “Stand Fast as the Guardians...
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As British troops were descending upon Boston, the Continental Congress' first official act was to request that Rev. Jacob Duché,...
“Two Roads Diverge in the Woods …” – Robert Frost, Four Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning...
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked...
Presidents Acknowledged God in Inaugurals
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"Our history is replete with official references to the value and invocation of Divine guidance in ... Executive Orders and...
The Ten Commandments, and the importance of educated & moral citizens
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"THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are not the laws. They are THE Law"
-stated Cecil B. DeMille at the New York opening of...
Jefferson’s Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
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"On Religious Freedom Day ... we commemorate the ... anniversary of the passing of a State law that has shaped...
Fighting the Sultan to Founding Georgia – Eugene of Savoy’s aide-de-camp James Oglethorpe, and...
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Early in his career, Eugene of Savoy, under the command of Polish King Jan Sobieski, helped defeat 200,000 Muslim Turks...
Martin Luther King, Jr., change the Christian way: thru love of neighbor & peaceful...
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In 1983, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the bill to make the 3rd Monday in January a holiday in honor...
Bleeding Kansas, John Brown, Beecher’s Bibles & Preacher Henry Ward Beecher
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He was one of the most popular preachers in America in the middle 1800s.
His sister was Harriett Beecher Stowe, who...
Albert Schweitzer, Medical Missionary to Africa, “Reverence for Life”
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Albert Schweitzer was born JANUARY 14, 1875, in a village in Alsace, Germany.
The son of a Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, he won...
Millard Fillmore, 13th U.S. President: A Grateful Sense of Our Profound Obligations
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"May God save the country, for it is obvious the people will not." -Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was elected to the...
Hanukkah: Its remarkable story, and what 8 American presidents had to say about it
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The origin of lights at this season can be traced back to the Jewish Festival of Lights, or Feast of...
What Led to the Emancipation Proclamation & 13th Amendment?
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During the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the pro-slavery South wanted to count slaves so as to have a higher population so...
Connecting the Dots: Renaissance, Reformation, Revolution
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How did Islam's expansion lead to the Dark Ages, the Age of Discovery, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the American...
Handmaidens of the Lord: Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman & Anna Murray-Douglass
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Born a slave in New York in 1797, she spoke only Dutch until sold around the age of 9, together...
Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving to God
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On NOVEMBER 21, 1620 (NS), the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact and began their Plymouth Colony.
Of the 102 Pilgrims, only...
Pilgrims experimented with Communism … and Rejected It!
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High winds and treacherous tides along North America's coast blew the Pilgrims 500 miles off course, preventing them from joining...
Martin Luther, the Reformation & Protestantism
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On OCTOBER 31, 1517, an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther posted 95 debate questions or "theses" on the door of...
George Whitefield died SEPTEMBER 30, 1770
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Beginning in 1740, George Whitefield preached seven times in America, to crowds sometimes over 25,000.
He spread the Great Awakening Revival,...
William Bradford, Squanto and the Pilgrims
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Of 102 Pilgrims that landed in Massachusetts in November of 1620, only half survived till spring.
In the Spring of 1621,...
Louis Pasteur – “Science, which brings man nearer to God.”
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Washing hands to prevent the spread of disease was recommended in 1844 to the doctors of the Vienna General Hospital...
Samuel Adams – “The Father of the American Revolution,”
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Crying "No taxation without representation," he instigated the Stamp Act Riots in 1765.
In 1770, after the Boston Massacre, where British...
Daniel Boone died SEPTEMBER 26, 1820
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During the French and Indian War, 20-year-old Daniel Boone, and his cousin-future General Daniel Morgan, served as wagon drivers for...
George Mason – “The Father of the Bill of Rights”
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"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Thus began the first of...
John Marshall born SEPTEMBER 24, 1755
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"The power to tax involves the power to destroy," wrote Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
Perhaps no one...
John Paul Jones – “Father of the American Navy”
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"I have not yet begun to fight!" shouted John Paul Jones when the captain of the 50-gun British frigate HMS...